..Larval coral reef fish probably contribute little to the dispersal of the parasites of the adult fish so that parasite dispersal is more difficult than that of the fish themselves...

Pomphorhynchus heronensis and restricted movement of Lutjanus carponotatus on the Great Barrier Reef

T H CribbDepartment of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, AustraliaJ Helminthol 74:53-6. 2000

..Reef flat and reef slope sites were separated by as little as 300 m. These results imply both that the fish have very limited local movement and that transmission of the parasite is concentrated locally...

..These results show that bivesiculids may have three-host life-cycles in addition to the two-host life-cycles that have been demonstrated previously. The three-host life-cycle enables bivesiculids to infect large carnivorous fishes...

..We conclude that the present distributions of species of Hurleytrematoides in the Indo-Pacific are driven by historical opportunity and capacity to disperse, and that some disjunct distributions are sculpted by stochasticity...

A comprehensive analysis of the biogeography of the thelastomatoid pinworms from Australian burrowing cockroaches (Blaberidae: Geoscapheinae, Panesthiinae): no evidence of coevolution

A R JexSchool of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, AustraliaParasitology 134:1387-99. 2007

..In a broader context, this study provides the first comprehensive examination of the role of coevolutionary speciation and host specificity in regulating the distribution of pinworms in arthropods...

Taxonomy, host specificity and dietary implications of Hurleytrematoides (Digenea: Monorchiidae) from chaetodontid fishes on the Great Barrier Reef

..Although all species are apparently restricted to chaetodontids on the GBR, specificity within the family varies from oioxenous to euryxenous; a core/satellite host paradigm explains the distribution of several species...

Local climate aridity influences the distribution of thelastomatoid nematodes of the Australian giant burrowing cockroach

A R JexSchool of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, AustraliaParasitology 134:1401-8. 2007

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A description of Lecithocladium invasor n.sp. (Digenea: Hemiuridae) and the pathology associated with two species of Hemiuridae in acanthurid fish

C B ChambersDepartment of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, AustraliaParasitol Res 87:666-73. 2001

..annulatus, N. brevirostris, N. tuberosus and N. vlamingii. Unlike L. invasor n.sp., L. chingi was not associated with significant lesions. The different pathenogenicity of the two species in acanthurid fish is discussed...

Host specificity of two species of Gnathia (Isopoda) determined by DNA sequencing blood meals

Patterns of relatedness in the Kudoidae with descriptions of Kudoa chaetodoni n. sp. and K. lethrini n. sp. (Myxosporea: Multivalvulida)

M A A BurgerSchool of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, AustraliaParasitology 134:669-81. 2007

..There was significant correlation between tissue tropism in the form of well-supported brain and heart-infecting clades. Host specificity and geographical distribution showed some correlations with genotype...

A review of the Arhythmacanthidae (Acanthocephala) with a description of Heterosentis hirsutus n. sp. from Cnidoglanis macrocephala (Plotosidae) in Australia

S PichelinDepartment of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, AustraliaParasite 6:293-302. 1999

..comb. Arhythmacanthus Yamaguti, 1935 is maintained as a synonym of Heterosentis because the distinction between two and three hook types is made equivocal when the transition between the apical and subapical hooks is gradual...

Three new species of blood flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) infecting pufferfishes (Teleostei: Tetraodontidae) from off Bali, Indonesia

A N GordonDepartment of Veterinary Pathology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, AustraliaVet Pathol 35:21-30. 1998

..Egg granulomas were ubiquitous in turtle tissues throughout this study. Although they generally appeared to be mild or incidental lesions, they were occasionally associated with severe multifocal granulomatous pneumonia or meningitis...

Tetraphyllidean metacestodes of teleosts of the Great Barrier Reef, and the use of in vitro cultivation to identify them

..N. lineatus and N. moretonensis are very similar but are distinguished by their caeca which extend further posteriorly in N. moretonensis. There is no apparent pattern in the host-specificity of this genus...

Ultrastructure of the digestive tract of Gyliauchen nahaensis (Platyhelminthes, Digenea), an inhabitant of the hindgut of herbivorous fishes

M K JonesCentre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Queensland, Queensland, AustraliaJ Morphol 246:198-211. 2000

..The peculiar gut morphology of G. nahaensis, coupled with alterations in the arrangement of suckers, is interpreted to be an adaptation to the predominantly herbivorous diets of the definitive hosts...

Stock structure of blue threadfin Eleutheronema tetradactylum on the Queensland east coast, as determined by parasites and conventional tagging

..For the present we refrain from dividing any of the morphospecies. This is because there is a continuum of levels of intra- and interspecific genetic variation in this system, so that distinguishing the two would be largely arbitrary. ..

Comparison of the second internal transcribed spacer (ribosomal DNA) from populations and species of Fasciolidae (Digenea)

..2%. The sequence of Fasciola sp. from Japan matched closely that of F. gigantica. This study demonstrates variability in nucleotide sequence within the ITS2 region which allows discrimination between species of Fasciolidae...

The ghost of parasites past: eggs of the blood fluke Cardicola chaetodontis (Aporocotylidae) trapped in the heart and gills of butterflyfishes (Perciformes: Chaetodontidae) of the Great Barrier Reef

..It differs from most other species in the genus in its elongate pars prostatica and globular sinus-sac, and from all other species in having the seminal vesicle almost always entirely in the hindbody...

Tormopsolus attenuatus n. sp. (Digenea: Acanthocolpidae) from Seriola hippos (Perciformes: Carangidae), Western Australia, with some observations on the relationships in the genus

..sp. from Acanthaluteres vittiger and for an unnamed species from Meuschenia freycineti, both from off northern Tasmania. The new genus is distinguished from all other members of its family by its amphistomatous body plan...

A review of the family Enenteridae Yamaguti, 1958 (Digenea), with descriptions of species from Australian waters, including Koseiria huxleyi n. sp

..Some species of fishes and molluscs are considered to have distributions that encompass the entire tropical Indo-West Pacific. These findings suggest that at least some of their parasites have similarly broad distributions...

Phylogeny and classification of the Digenea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda)

..Therefore, the membership of established higher taxa are emended, new taxa erected and a revised, phylogenetically based classification proposed and discussed in light of ontogeny, morphology and taxonomic history...

A redescription of Homalometron senegalense Fischthal & Thomas, 1972 (Digenea: Apocreadiidae) from Synaptura kleinii (Teleostei) of the western Mediterranean

..This species is considered closest to H. galaicus and H. wrightae, both also reported from soleid hosts. The concept of Apocreadiidae espoused is that most recently developed by Cribb & Bray (1999)...